U.S. House Rep. Jody Hice (R-Greensboro) spoke to a full house of University of Georgia students at the College Republicans’ meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 22 on topics ranging from Brian Kemp’s gubernatorial campaign, the GOP’s recent achievements and his plans if he wins re-election in November.

“This governor’s race is the most important governor’s race, I believe, in the history of our state. We got to get [Kemp] across the finish line,” Hice said, encouraging students to get involved in the Kemp campaign.

Hice also mentioned his support for the House District 117 and 119 GOP candidates Houston Gaines and Marcus Wiedower. Republican candidates are “all in this together” going into the November elections, he said.

“We’re running a campaign… We’re going to do the best we can, not only for ourselves but also to help Brian Kemp win and other [GOP candidates] on the ticket. If they do well, I do well. If I do well, they do well,” Hice said.

He predicted that Republicans would lose seats but keep control of Congress after November. “We’re probably not going to hold it to the same extent as we hold it now, but we are going to win the House” he said.

The remainder of his speech focused on President Trump and the Republicans’ “successes” in recent months, such as Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and the economy’s 4.1 percent growth in the second quarter, which he attributed to the GOP. Although the economy grew every year since the Great Recession ended in 209, Hice said the economy was a “disaster” during the Obama administration.

He also said the Oversight and Government Reform Committee—which he serves on—has removed 22 out of 23 heads of federal government agencies because of corruption.

“There’s great things happening in America,” he said. “Unfortunately, you don’t hear about this kind of stuff in the news. We all know that. We’ve watched, and we’ve heard. Virtually, everywhere you turn on mainstream [media]. It’s so slanted.”

An elephant in the room was the growing talk of impeaching Trump after his ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of tax and banking fraud, and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations related to paying hush money to two women who allegedly had affairs with Trump, while also implicating Trump in the payoffs.

“I’m not ready to go there at all,” Hice told Flagpole. He said that both Cohen and Manafort’s cases did not relate to the Russian collusion investigation, “which is what the special counsel is all about.”

Graduate student Or Zolti asked the congressman about fixing the backlogs of immigration courts. “It takes two to three years for them to get a court date, but until then, they’re free in the streets,” Zolti said.

“That’s part of immigration reform,” Hice responded. “There’s no reason in the world why we should have a backlog. I personally have dealt with families that it’s taken over 20 years to become a citizen of this country. They’ve done it by the book. That is insane that it’s taken that length of time.”

Hice will face Democrat Tabitha Johnson-Green in the general election in November.